What is Python

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Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected.

Python uses dynamic typing and a combination of reference counting and a cycle-detecting garbage collector for memory management.[80] It uses dynamic name resolution (late binding), which binds method and variable names during program execution.